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I love how Hollywood can remake any horror film into a bland jump-fest. The Ring was brilliant with a rubbish remake. I'd recommend seeing the Spanish version of 'Rec' for a suspenseful and interesting take on a rather generic topic.

Sorry I watched the japnese version of the Ring. I was not impressed, at all.

I saw it at a friends house at night in front of his massive TV after he had gone to bed. Soul chilling. I guess your mileage varied .

My environment and state of mind massively changes my reception of scary films. I saw 'Don't look now' with another friend who complained the whole way through that nothing was happening and then laughed at the end. I also saw 'The woman in Black' at the Belfast opera house which was ruined by screaming 12 year old girls. I'm sure I would agree with Frazzled if the first time I saw the Ring I was with a crowd of hostile friends (if you know what I mean).

No it was at the house with appropriate Rum and popcorn. I was looking forward to it as I thought it would be really good.
But movies are like everything and to each person's taste. I absolutely love Cloverfield, but most people on this board hated it.

I don't get japanese horror films, I guess its because they remind me of something M. Night Shamylamylan directed.

The Audition... a friend showed it to me and it wasn't that good, I would prefer Shutter Island to it and that wasn't even a horror flick.

Jennifer's body. Scary as hell.

Best line in Jennifer's Body is the one about the frozen peas. I laughed my ass off!

Event horizon for me - still puts the hair on the back of my neck when I re-watch it.

thats the scariest movie i've ever seen... I can't believe they made it.

How scary the movie is depends on the time frame you watched the movie. The unknown is always the scariest so something new and well made will scare you more than something old and repeated. The first time you saw Halloween you were scared. The 20th time, after many copies, it isn't as scary. It's still a good movie though.

Poltergiest
Nightmare on Elm Street
Halloween

Those were good movies and scary.

Event Horizon
Paranormal Activity
Poltergeist.

I was 8 when I first saw Poltergeist. At the time there was a storm outside so severe that tornado warnings had gone out for the area and the hail was the size of half-dollars. The scariest moment was when the little girl was watching the tv, it was just static, and she turns to her parents and says "they're here".

Nightmares for weeks.

Jeepers Creepers 1 .. .. .. oh wait .. I thought you meant comedy

On the whole I'm not scare by horror movies, of course I jump at certain parts but thats just shock factor rather than being scared. So the only one that has ever really freaked me out a bit was House on Haunted Hill, I love that film

ooh,saw I was kinda scary. But after the second one it lost its appeal.

Hmm, for a decent "psychological scare",Henry: Portrait of a serial killer ,was pretty good.

It wasn't "scary" in a "BOO..got you!" way,what was scary was watching the evolution of madness that went on in the film.

The last 5 minutes or so are particularly disturbing,even though nothing is really shown.

The clock tower game (on playstation) scared the living pooh out of me. Damn now Im going to see if I can download it or something. Its probably terrible now but when it came out, that game left me freaked for a good while.


I also find it kind of cool, how some people thought Event Horizon was really freaky, and others think it was a comedy. I was one of the freaked out types when I first saw it. Damn thats a good movie.

Paranormal Activity has got to be the worst movie ever made.
With all the hype around I thought it would be something special, and wasted 2 hours of
my life watching some hidden dude pulling strings attached to doors.

Ediin wrote:Paranormal Activity has got to be the worst movie ever made.
With all the hype around I thought it would be something special, and wasted 2 hours of
my life watching some hidden dude pulling strings attached to doors.

and you play with bits of metal and plastic glued together and call them *insert army name*.....

When I was young i walked downstairs when my parents were watching the mummy. Those beetles scared me so bad i was terrified of anything that size for about a year...

Prawnkus wrote:When I was young i walked downstairs when my parents were watching the mummy. Those beetles scared me so bad i was terrified of anything that size for about a year...

I feel your pain. I used to have terrible dreams about those scarabs eating me from the inside.

Imagining what it would feel like is the worst part.

For me, it would have to be the original 'Alien'


Crikey.

I think that what defines a horror movie as being scary, to me, is how much the fear imprints on me/sticks with me. So, on that basis alone, White Noise. Not because the movie itself scared me, but the idea did. And that little info screen at the end of the movie about how there is X number of EVP recordings made every year, with over half of them being overtly threatening. Since that, I haven't let a TV or radio broadcast static for any longer than the length of time it takes me to cross the room (at top speed) and shut it off.

However, a lot of movies have made me scared of stuff in normal life. (I like to be scared, and I have an overactive imagination...)

Frailty. This is one of the few examples of a twist ending I did NOT see coming.
Not the part where it isn't the brother you think it is, I mean. The fact that God really DID give them these powers. Very disturbing...

Critters 2. I still won't put my foot down next to the bed when the lights are out, unless the bed frame goes all the way to the floor with no space underneath.

The Strangers. This movie freaked me out. It wasn't terrifying, but I found it suspenseful all the way through. I wanted to know...why? Why?! And of course, there is no reason. That's the scariest part about it.

Mr. Brooks. This movie was disturbing.

The Ring. I saw the American version. It was a pretty scary movie, I thought. I did NOT see the twist coming. (Which is rare for me.) Every time I open a closet door when I am alone in the house, I am afraid I am going to find someone inside like the parents of that girl from the opening scene did.

The Prestige. Whenever I think about the water tanks and what it must have been like to go through that night after night...it sends my mind reeling.

I have others, but this is a list of the ones that I thought of off the top of my head.

Cheese Elemental wrote:

Prawnkus wrote:When I was young i walked downstairs when my parents were watching the mummy. Those beetles scared me so bad i was terrified of anything that size for about a year...

I feel your pain. I used to have terrible dreams about those scarabs eating me from the inside.

Imagining what it would feel like is the worst part.

when i was five i watched independence day,i know it sounds lame but it was more my imagination that scared me but still >.<
i couldnt sleep for a month

i loved the thing and the exorcist, house of a thousand corpses was hilarious as well as the much loved evil dead series, man i love those movies.

any tips on what to watch if you are just getting in to horror movies?

Vlad_D wrote:any tips on what to watch if you are just getting in to horror movies?

http://www.cinemassacre.com/category/moviereviews/monstermadness/


Go watch these videos. They're short reviews on classic, and some obscure, horror movies.

thanks man, actually really helpfull. time to start hiring out as many horror movies as i can

Jimsolo wrote:The Ring. I saw the American version. It was a pretty scary movie, I thought. I did NOT see the twist coming. (Which is rare for me.)

I saw the American version first too. And like you, I actually missed the twist. I might have literally slapped my head after the twist was revealed. Beautifully plotted story, IMO.

I usually nail those twists. I had The Sixth Sense right at the beginning, which kind of made it interesting viewing but gave me none of the experience that most people had with that film. And lacking that I was never as high on the movie as critics and fans. So I guess I probably wouldn't have liked the The Ring as much if I'd figured that one out.

halonachos wrote: Psychological horror, thy name is Stephen King. If he gets a movie properly made it would be amazing.

He did, actually. It was the TV-movie version of the The Shining. It was a big pet project of King's, who badly wanted to get the story "right." And of course it was about 1/100th as scary as Kubrick's version. This is because no one did scary and disturbing cinema quite like Stanley Kubrick. And because while King's books seem so ready-made for TV/feature films, they tend not to translate all that well.

Probably a tie between Cube and (I believe) a movie called Warlock. Don't remember the name, I just remember it being vaguely scary when the main villain killed people in some very torturous ways. Same with Cube - I just remember being terrified of being in a huge cube with no way out, death traps all over the place.

And while Saw has basically descended into the torture porn genre, the first movie was still a fantastic suspense/thriller movie. Just that scene at the end when Jigsaw stood up and locked Eric in the room, all while Hello Zepp was playing in the background...I just loved that twist ending.

Scariest when I was a kid (I was 8) was the original Predator movie, I wasn't meant to watch and was sneaking a look throught he kitchen door just as the camera pans up to the skun bodies hanging in the trees and my friends older brother snuck up behind us and grabbed me! I nearly shat myself! but the scariest movie I can think of now is most def Pin head inferno! that is one bizzare movie still creeps me out now! faceless creatures with tongues that burn you that float and don't walk, monsters that are just two arms with a gaping jaw in the middle and a quietly spoken bad guy with a penchant for tearing peoples bodies apart with hooked chains....

When I watched the first Jaws film for the first time I damn near cried in fright.

I saw a thread like this on giant bomb, so let me think....

Today I am completely amazed and happy to watch horror films- hostel,saw,dark floors, human centipede, and all of those movies that disgust everyone. I was playing silent hill when it first came out, I was pretty young back then.. and it didn't scare me..But the one thing that did was
Chucky (yes, chucky -.-) scared me until I was in 8th grade. Beyond belief:fact of fiction had this one episode with a girl that used make-up or something rather, and she looked in the mirror and was mutated and stuff, that really got me. I know, I typed an entire story of me being scared, oh well..

Now, that's enough rambling, back to work!
RAM

Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector.

Scariest thing I have ever seen.

Scary enough that every time I am at Half Price books, I move any copies from the "Comedy" section (where it has no business being) into the "Horror" section.